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  • City flowers in the sun


    City flowers in the sun

    Flowers in the Peace Park in Cork flourish in the early April sunlight last year. Does anyone recognise this one?

    Good luck to everyone competing at the Blog Awards tonight and have a great night regardless!

    What the hell! Flickr gave me a dud URL again. That’s three in a row. Time to complain.

    City flowers

    Kristy asked for a desktop sized version so here’s a 1024×768 version that is the proper dimensions for a standard desktop. Most of my photos have a 1.5 ratio between sides so I had to crop this to 1.33. Please if you use it, leave in my name and URL at bottom of the image. Thanks!

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/800s

  • Explore Cork City in Photos

    Flickr has a wonderful mapping system that makes it super easy to view photos from a particular location. Unfortunately Flickr can’t automatically figure out where the photo was taken. That has to be done by the user but it’s as simple as opening the map in your browser and dragging it to the proper location. In the future your camera will do this for you like the brand new Canon 1D MKIII already does.

    I do offer one warning. There are 17 pages of photos around Cork City center alone. It’s going to take you a while to get through them all but it’s an enjoyable romp around the city. You might even come across a few new sights! Go explore the city!

    If discovering Cork isn’t enough, you can also visit Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, or even Blarney. Out of interest, I tried Mallow too but the link given for that doesn’t seem to work unfortunately.

    I previously mentioned this mapping system here but it’s worth another look if you missed that post.

  • Innovative Streets


    Innovative Streets

    It’s good to look down sometimes. I think this was used to hold a decorative safety pole but I don’t remember ever seeing it used. There are poles on the other side of this narrow street however.

    The street of course is Paul Street behind Waterstones.

    I was going to blog that yesterday was World Book Day but time ran out for me and the power cut didn’t help my motivation much. Nevertheless, Cearta.ie blogged it. Check out some of my photos from last year’s World Book Day celebration!

    Aperture ƒ/11
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/400s

  • The Goat is Dead


    The Goat is Dead

    In my younger days when I was out on the town on a Friday or Saturday night with the rest of the crowd, “The Goat Broke Loose” was an occasional watering hole for me and my friends. It started out well, with a good mix of customers, although if memory serves there were a lot of preening ladies there too interested in looking in a mirror to notice a poor altruistic open source developer like myself!

    In later years the pub became known as a place where a younger clientèle would gather to drink. Unfortunately for them it closed a few years ago but they all moved on of course to a new spot. I suspect it will be redeveloped because it is right next to the now closed Grand Parade Hotel and the City Library which is going to get a major new make over in the coming months if planning goes through.

    Munsterpubs.com has a less than glowing review of the Goat but it’s pretty much spot-on. You can see the Goat in the background of Your mom knows kung fuu.

    Well, that was strange. I published my post and the url to my image changed. I had to copy/paste it from it’s Flickr page again. First time that’s happened.

    Links I like:


    Apertureƒ/5
    CameraCanon EOS 20D
    Focal length18mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/60s

  • The Lady Smiles


    The Lady Smiles

    On her lunch break she smiles instead of smoking, at least for a moment.

    This is the second and final image of the Lady on her break series. If you look very carefully at the window you’ll see my face, my hand, and the back of Jacinta’s head as we walked past. Thanks for the comments yesterday!

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/80s

  • The Lady smokes

    On her break, she lights up a cigarette to relax. Who did she see?

    The Magnum Blog has been running for a few weeks. I blogged the original opening of the site ages ago, but it wasn’t ready for prime time and it made it’s debut a short while ago. A few days ago, A faked portrait of my generation explored some of the issues surrounding street photography. A legal case in Quebec in effect made street photography illegal in Canada.
    Here in Ireland, photographers do have the right to photograph people, but if the subjects have an expectation of privacy then you’re not allowed photograph them. That could include a couple talking on the street. That’s only the opinion of our Minister For Justice but unfortunately many of my street photos could be on shaky ground if that really was what the law said.

    Oh, another photo of this girl tomorrow!

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/80s

  • The Black Surfer


    The Black Surfer

    A surfer rides the waves at Garretstown in early January this year. I’m not sure how many were out there but we talked to one wet and cold looking one when he came out of the water and he told us they had been there for a few hours.

    The heavens opened and rain fell shortly after. Only the surfers were left out in the open.

    Donal has a good post about exposure. Donal, you should read Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera by Bryan Peterson. I’ll lend you my copy if you want. It’s a great read.

    Aperture ƒ/6.3
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 200mm
    ISO 800
    Shutter speed 1/125s

  • Ireland V England at Croke Park


    Ireland V England at Croke Park

    Ireland played England in rugby at Croke Park yesterday, and Ireland won, 43 points to 13!

    This was an historic occasion. Landsowne Road, where rugby and soccer matches are normally played is being renovated. Croke Park is the headquarters of the GAA, the native Irish sports of football and hurling. Playing “foreign sports” there was like someone desecrating holy ground. Not that that stopped American football being played there a few years ago. I guess some sports are more foreign than others. It literally took years for this to happen. I kid you not. Year after year, the issue of “foreign sports” came up at GAA meetings and it was only recently they allowed them in. Bravo!

    Anyway, to pile insult upon injury, the first second rugby game there would be Ireland vs England. Republican supporters were up in arms during the week. “800 years!” “Bloody Sunday!” “1916!” “Black and Tans!” Imagine, “God Save The Queen” would be played in Croke Park? It’s hard to fathom but it’s all over now.

    This is the closest I got to the match. We were in town, I wandered around a bit with my camera before heading home and watched a DVD, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What a wacky film. I loved it! Yes, I don’t have much of an interest in sport.

    Aperture ƒ/4.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/250s

  • The shadows have it all


    The shadows have it all

    Sometimes it’s the shadows that are the focus of my camera rather than the people in it.

    Aperture ƒ/11
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/320s

  • blueMarine – Free digital photography workflow software

    blueMarine

    blueMarine is being developed as an open source digital photography workflow environment. It’s written in Java so it’ll run just about anywhere – Windows, Mac and Linux should be “easy” to support.

    I haven’t tried it yet and I’m not a fan of Java apps in general but has anyone else tried it? They say they’re close to a beta release so it might be worth a look soon.

    Start thinking of an opensource application like Aperture or Lightroom that enables you to organize, develop, print and publish your photos. Pretty standard stuff nowadays.
    Let’s go on and let’s think of the workflow. For the existing commercial applications the workflow starts just after shooting the photo and ends with a print on paper, the photo archived and maybe a web gallery published.

    Judging by the screenshots, it’s come a long way, even supporting geotagging of images and “Gannet”, a plugin for the amateur ornithologist photographer. (found on the GIMP Users list)

  • Escalator Moments


    Escalator Moments

    A one second exposure captures the movement through time of the escalator in Nikeworld San Francisco last August. This is one of a series of shots, including a few of Mark and Andy although I think this is the most dramatic of them.

    I wasn’t going to post this at all except that a few days ago another escalator photo made the front page of Digg somehow. Digg away please 🙂

    Aperture ƒ/16
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1.3s

  • Girl reflecting on bus


    Girl reflecting on bus

    Waiting at the traffic lights, the camera can still see you, even if it’s not pointed in your direction. Those are the buildings of the Grand Parade in Cork behind her.

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/100s
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